Sentences with phrase «best picture prize»

Past People's Choice winners have subsequently won the Academy's best picture prize, including Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech.

Update: The Hong Kong - based South China Morning Post has linked the store closures to the release of controversial independent movie Ten Years, which won best picture prize at this month's Hong Kong Film Awards, despite being banned in China.

I would think that they will either give their Best Picture prize to one of the top three — La La Land, Manchester by the Sea or Moonlight — or they will fly off the rails and go for Silence.

The National Society of Film Critics have given it their Best Picture prize, with the movie also taking Best Director for the Coens, Best Actor for Oscar Isaac, and Best Cinematography as well.

Joel and Ethan Coen won the Best Director Oscar as well as the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for «No Country for Old Men,» which also took the Best Picture prize that year.

«Lady Bird,» which took the best picture prize for comedy or musical, has topped $ 34 million at the box office so far.

Mercifully, they gave their Best Picture prize to the rightful winner that year, The Social Network.

Fox Searchlight Pictures» «The Shape of Water,» which boasted the largest number of nominations with 14, took home the Best Picture prize, and Guillermo Del Toro earned a repeat Best Director win after his Globes victory.

As the 2018 Oscars nomination balloting concludes Friday, it bears noting that no true superhero film - including 2008's acclaimed «The Dark Knight» - has ever been nominated for the best picture prize.

Nathan Lane then presented Carol producers Christine Vachon, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley with the best picture prize.

Fox Searchlight Pictures» «The Shape of Water,» which boasted the largest number of nominations with 14, took home the Best Picture prize, and

Gee, The Social Network wins another Best Picture prize?

The National Society of Film Critics closed down the pundits» phase of awards season this past weekend by giving its best picture prize to Jean - Luc Godard's «Goodbye to Language,» catching many — including some of the...

The Academy loves its biopics, having nominated more than a dozen for the coveted Best Picture prize in the last ten years.

But for all the unmarried women and Norma Raes, no film with a female lead won the best picture prize in that decade.

,» this one has been reduced to a race between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, by most accounts the only two films that have (at least should have) a stake on the Best Picture prize, and if I discount The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, in spite of its interest in the ALSKDJFHGZMZNCBVQPOWIUEYRT's of our language, it's because Julian Schnabel's own use of the Caps Lock function behind the camera is the star of that fashion show.

I got the feeling that A Beautiful Mind took home the Best Picture prize for 2001 due to that factor.

Taking the Best Picture prize was The Lobster with La La Land coming in as the runner - up.

Because of how the Best Picture prize is chosen, it's most likely that the winner will end up being a consensus choice — possibly very few people's absolute favorite movie but a lot of people's third - favorite movie.

Blame Harvey Weinstein's notoriously aggressive, bullying Oscar campaign that secured the best picture prize for the insipid Shakespeare in Love.

It's exactly 25 years since LAFCA purposefully changed the path of Terry Gilliam's then - unreleased «Brazil» by handing it their Best Picture prize, prompting doubtful Universal bosses to let audiences see it.

«Boyhood» has received the Best Picture prize from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, both seen as possible previews of what movies will receive Best Picture nods at the Oscars.

After recent rule changes, the Academy can now nominate between five and 10 movies for the Best Picture prize and this year it went with eight, one less than the two previous years.

So maybe the Los Angeles critics will feel the need to get behind a few ponies, as they do annually (Vera Farmiga in «Down to the Bone,» handing «There Will Be Blood» their Best Picture prize last year when Oscar buzz -LSB-...]

The master storyteller was beaten to both the 1983 Best Director and Best Picture prize by Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, but it was a very strong year of double - header noms - Sydney Pollack for Tootsie (one of my all - time favourite films) and Sidney Lumet (The Verdict) were also in the running - while Wolfgang Petersen (for Das Boot) and Costa Gavras's Missing (Best Picture) were in the mix too.

There are three new entries: The Front Runner, which just got a pickup from Sony Pictures Classics; A Star Is Born, because the word of mouth is through the roof; and The Favourite, because it's Fox Searchlight, which just won yet another Best Picture prize and had a spare just in case.

«Having actually won the best picture prize, it enhances everything.»

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Selma stars Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo have shrugged off their disappointment after the film lost out on the prestigious Best Picture prize at...

With the exception of the best picture prize, which is a tight Oscar race, most of Sunday night's winners are expected to take home statuettes again at the Academy Awards on March 4.

Taking the Best Picture prize was Dunkirk, writer - director Christopher Nolan's epic depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.

The Academy are notably resistant to nominating giant blockbuster, crowd - galvanizing epics for its Best Picture prize.

After the huge success his film has had with the critics awards (winning a half dozen Best Picture prizes) and how Miller himself has performed with them, the Australian born Oscar winner (for Happy Feet, no less) has bulleted past Ridley Scott (The Martian), who was set to claim the «veteran director without a Directing Oscar» label.

He wrote the winning adapted screenplays for «Sideways» and «The Descendants,» and has been nominated for additional writing, directing, and Best Picture prizes.

Not exact matches

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yebest adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 yeBest Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

In case you've somehow missed it, the envelope Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read from when announcing Best Picture winner was the wrong one, and it took until midway through round of impassioned acceptance speeches for the producers of La La Land to realize they hadn't won the top prize, after all; Moonlight had.

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

We got to take part in a workshop, ask lots of questions to the special guests and I gave out some prizes for the best questions, I even had a picture with the European Cup.

For example, some antibody manufacturers offer prizes for the best pictures generated using their products.

At each tent, they can get a stamp recording their touchdown and exploration, and keiki who complete their passports will receive a prize from Imiloa Astronomy Center as well as the opportunity to take a picture of yourself on your favorite planets with Imiloa's green screen camera.

This month we're giving away a big prize pack of goodies * that will help with taking better pictures from your phone.

We're offering a grand prize of # 5000 for the photo which best captures the concept of love, whether that's a picture -LSB-...]

She also received a nominations from The Golden Globes, and took home no less than two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director (another prize that had never before gone to a woman), beating out ex-husband James Cameron, who was nominated for his CG juggernaut Avatar.

Faye, 77, and Warren, 80, had announced La Land as Best Picture, the pair had been given the wrong envelope to announce the prize, leading Oscar producers to run onto the stage midway - through the acceptance speeches to unveil Moonlight as the real winner.

Though it lost Best Picture to The Godfather (fair enough), Bob Fosse's movie musical holds the record for most Academy Awards won by a film that did not also win the big prize.

For this list, we focused on the Best Picture, Best Director, and major acting prizes.

By Paul Sheehan HollywoodNews.com: Among the seven prizes claimed by «The King's Speech» at the 64th annual edition of the BAFTAs were Best Picture and Best British Picture.

If, however, yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature winner, Get Out, manages to take tonight's top prize, then it will even outdo the last few Best Picture winners at the box office to top nine digits.